2005 Don Rose, American Entertainer 2005 Fred Korematsu, American Celebrity 2004 Alistair Cooke, American Journalist 2003 Michael Jeter, actor, Evening Shade, dies at 50 2002 Ed Turner, American Journalist 1999 Gary Morton, producer/actor, dies at 74 1996 Hugh Edward Lance Falkus, filmmaker/naturalist, dies at 78 1996 Ryoei Saito, businessman, dies at 79 1995 Graham Anthony Richard Lock, cricketer, dies at 65 1995 Paul A Rothchild, record producer, dies at 59 1995 Rozelle Claxton, pianist/arranger, dies at 82 1994 Sid Weiss, musician, jazz double-bassist, dies at 79 1993 Jeremy Siegrist, actor (Adv of Darly and Samy), dies hiking at 20 1993 Richard C Diebenkorn, Jr., U.S. painter (Ocean Park Paintings), dies at 70 1992 Art Hannes, announcer, dies of a respiratory ailment at 72 1992 Luigi De Laurentiis, Italian producer (Toto, Macaroni), dies 1991 Jan Willem Hofstra, Dutch actor and writer (Friends of My Friends), dies 1990 Harry Bridges, American Activist 1989 Dort Clark, actor (In Harm's Way), dies 1986 James Cagney, actor (Yankee Doodle Dandy), dies in New York at 86 1986 John Ciardi, U.S. poet/interpreter (Dante), dies at 69 1985 Harold Peary, actor (Herb-Blondie, Willy), dies of heart attack at 76 1984 Peter Yarrall, strongest Englishman/weighed 826 lb (374.7 kg), dies 1984 Karl Rahner, German Theologian 1983 Pal Kadosa, Hungarian composer/pianist, dies at 79 1981 Dewitt Wallace, U.S. founder (Reader's Digest), dies at 91 1979 Airey Neave, British MP (Conservatives), killed by terrorist bomb 1978 George Paine, lefty cricket spinner (for England in WI 1935), dies 1977 Levko Mykolayevich Revutsky, composer, dies at 88 1976 Jacqueline Royaards-Sandberg, actress (Hostage Rights), dies at 99 1975 Peter Bamm, writer, dies 1974 Ludovicus J Rogier, Dutch historian (Reborn in Freedom), dies at 79 1972 Gabriel Heather, U.S. news anchor, dies at 81 1972 Peter Whitney, actor (Rough Riders), dies at 55 1971 Selmer Jackson, actor (Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp), dies at 82 1969 Lucien Bianchi, Belgian auto racer, dies at 34 1966 Erwin Piscator, German director (Plebeians test rebellion), dies at 72 1966 Maxfield Parrish, U.S. painter, dies at 95 1964 Willem CN Andriessen, Dutch composer/pianist (Beethoven), dies at 76 1963 Alexander Vasil'yevich Gauk, composer, dies at 69 1961 P J Melotte, discovered Jupiter's 8th satellite Pasiphae, dies 1960 Fritz Klimsch, German sculptor/painter, dies at 90 1960 Joseph Haas, German opera composer (Totenmesse), dies at 81 1956 Edmund Clerihew Bentley, English Journalist 1955 Harl McDonald, U.S. composer (Santa Fe Trail), dies at 55 1953 Roderich Mojsisovics-Mojsvar, composer, dies at 75 1950 Leon Blum, French premier (People's Front Government), dies at 77 1949 Friedrich C R Bergius, chemist (brown coal, Nobel 1931), dies at 64 1946 John S S P V Gort, viscount of Limerick/Hamsterley, dies at 59 1945 Karel Moor, composer, dies at 71 1942 Alfred Coville, French historian (Lesson premier Valois), dies at 81 1940 John Gilmour, Scottish Politician 1935 Romanos Hovakimi Melik'yan, composer, dies at 51 1926 Feliks E Dzerzjinski, Lithuanian organizer (KGB), dies at 48 1925 Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher (anthroposophy), dies at 64 1912 Karl May, German writer (Winnetou/Kara Ben Nemsi), dies at 70 1910 Jean Moreas, Y Papadiamantopoulos, Greek/French poet, dies at 53 1906 Betsy Perk, Christina E, journalist/writer/feminist, dies at 73 1884 Hans Hampel, composer, dies at 61 1879 David van der Kellen, Dutch coin engraver, dies at 74 1879 Thomas Couture, French painter/author, dies at 63 1875 Marie Moke Pleyel, composer, dies at 63 1873 Benedict Augustin Morel, psychologist (dementia praecox), dies at 63 1872 Nicolaos Mantzaros, composer, dies at 76 1871 W F A A Louisa/Lovisa, queen of Sweden/Norway, dies at 42 1864 Louis Alexander Balthasar Schindelmeisser, composer, dies 52 1840 George (Beau) Brummell, Dandy, dies 1764 Pietro Antonio Locatelli, Italian violinist and composer, dies at 68 1757 Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz, composer, dies at 39 1707 Sebastien le Prestre Vauban, French fortress architect, dies at 73 1547 Francois I of Valois-Angoulame, King of France (1515-47), dies at 52 1202 Joachim Van Fiore, Italian religious founder (Joachimism), dies 988 Arnulf II, count of Flanders (965-988), dies
